The posts in Moments of WeChat, our Chinese version of instant messenger on smart mobile phones, recently were about an ear-pleasing song, The Wind Rises, with very nice melody though the lyric beyond the understanding of usual listeners.

The music TV accompanying this song is done in cartoon or manga, with scenes of war that I assumed to be those seen in China’s TV dramas set in the anti-Japanese war period. Turns out it is the work of the Japanese great master of manga Miyazaki Hayao.

Whether it is about the love of two young people or the story of a scientist who made the airplane for his country, I am not sure. What impressed me most was the heroine being a painter and the hero a mechanic, both of the jobs I like from the bottom of my heart.

I remember very well that when I was a child my father took me to a training school attached to the Worker’s Palace for receiving training of drawing and painting. But my interest was more in the wheels or anything that can turn a high speed, even a turning electric fan could make me often wonder what was the force behind it to make it turn so fast. I also spent much of my spare time or even the time of class in thinking, drawing and making something like that. A self-made electric fan with two blades was finally put into motion with some batteries. That made me very happy and my parent very annoyed because they found me to have wasted the time and money that could have been used for other purposes.

They had me to travel alone at my very young age to that training school on each Sunday. At that time, safety was not the problem for parents to worry but the scarce transport made the travel not easy to a distance that can be reached within a short while under today’s condition. Departing as if for a long trip of no return and traveling alone, I felt being abandoned by my parents and was very saddened.

I have a lot to say, but now I don’t know what to begin with, so I decide to listen to the above themed song again and try to get some comfort from the melodious peace of mind.